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W. P. KOOKOGEY. RAILWAY SIGNAL.

N0. 396,750. Patented Jan. 29, 1889.v

NITED Erm ne IVILLIAM P. KOOKOGEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE KOOKOGEY ELECTRIC COMPANY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 396,750, dated January 29, 1889.

Application filed June 7, 1887. Renewed June 9, 1888. Serial No, 276,569. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM P. Kookocnv, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electrical Signals for Railways, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to apparatus for lighting and signaling along railways ;-and it con- I indicate the rails, the rail being-provided at suitable intervals with insulated sections 1 2, &c. From the insulated section 1 a wire or conductor, (1, passes to and about an electro magnet, O, thence to a battery, I), and finally to the railA or other ground-connec ti on. Facing and within the field of elcctroanagnet O is a circuit-closer, E, which, when moved into contact with a contact plate orfinger, l completes a circuit through E F, line b, battery 1), line a, rail A, and line or conductor c, which latter contains an electric lamp, (:t. From this it will be seen that as soon as the rails A B are bridged at the insulated section 1 the lamp-circuit is completed and the lamp rendered luminous, and that it will continue luminous so long as the circuit remains closed between E and 1?. Froni the circuit-closer E a line or conductm', (7, extends to a short cen' tral rail section or plate, ll, placed conveniently between the rails A and B and suitably insulated. "When the train arrives at the insulated rail II, contact is made therewith by means of a brush or other device, J, carried by the locomotive and a circuit is then completed through the line a, rail. H, the brush or contact J of the car A or locomotive, the wheels, rail A, andline a, battery I) line Z), circnit-closer E I thereby rendering luminous for a 1110' ment a lamp, K, carried in the locomotive and included in the circuit between. the brush and the wheels. This completes the apparatus for lighting one light orthe light forone block or section of the road, which remains lighted until the train reaches the second insulated section, 2, where precisely the same arrangement of circuits is employed and arranged to light a second lamp. The apparatus at all points after the first set of circuits is further provided with an electro-magnet, I, included in the line a, so that when the circuit of which it forms part is completed in one block or secupon the succeeding section or block.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In combination with a railway-track having a series of insulated sections, one in each block or division of the read, an electric circuit for each block or division, including the insulated railsection thereof, a generator or source of electricity, and an. elcctro-magnet, and a local lamp :cnit for each block or division, including a battery or generator and a circuit-closer adapted to be operated by the eleetro-magnet, whereby a train entering upon an insulated railsection is caused to complete the light-circuit and leave a lamp behind it in a luminous condition.

In combination with rails A and 13, one provided with insulated sections 1 2, &c., one such section in each block or division of the road, an electric circuitvfor each block or division, including two electric magnets and a source of electricity, local lamp-circuits, one for each block or division, and a circuit-closer included in each lamp-circuit and located between the two eleotro-magnets, each in the circuit of a different block or division, whereby the circuit-closer of each lamp-circuit in succession is caused to complete such lamp-ch euit as the train enters upon the insulated rail-section of the block or division to which said lamp-circuit belongs and to break or open said lamp-circuit as the succeeding one is perfected.

3. In combination with rails A B, one having insulated sections 1 2, &c., a series of circuits, CL, one for each insulated section and including the same, and two electro-magnets, O

and I, the magnet I of each circuit arranged in )roximit r to the ma 'net O of the )reeedin 3 v D b circuit, a series of local lamp-circuits, onefor each insulated section, and a series of circuitclosers, one included in each lamp-circuit and located between the magnets C and I, whereby I 5 the lamp-circuits are successively perfected as a train enters successiw'ely upon the insulated rail-sections.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witi'lesses.

'WM. 1. KOOKOGEY. \Vitnesses:

WILLIAM W. DODGE, T. W. SORAN. 

